The Hobart Town Magazine, Volume 2H. Melville, 1834 - Tasmania |
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... look up as an example and model of a brave ́soldier . The battle had not lasted half an hour , before he was shot through the head . A private of the name of Mackay , a man of the most reckless and dare - devil character , used to be ...
... look up as an example and model of a brave ́soldier . The battle had not lasted half an hour , before he was shot through the head . A private of the name of Mackay , a man of the most reckless and dare - devil character , used to be ...
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... look , the wild and unearthly expression of his eye , and the determined obstinacy with which he resisted all solicitations to join their party as usual , they stared at each other with astonishment , and ceased to annoy him . 66 " I It ...
... look , the wild and unearthly expression of his eye , and the determined obstinacy with which he resisted all solicitations to join their party as usual , they stared at each other with astonishment , and ceased to annoy him . 66 " I It ...
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... look upon our home below , And gaze in silence on the peaceful bow'rs That gave their shelter to our happier hours ; While , through the twilight of the past , flit by Its shadowy forms , to Memory's musing eye , How long , ere from the ...
... look upon our home below , And gaze in silence on the peaceful bow'rs That gave their shelter to our happier hours ; While , through the twilight of the past , flit by Its shadowy forms , to Memory's musing eye , How long , ere from the ...
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... look with too keen an eye upon this humble , but praiseworthy effort for their amusement . - EDITOR . ] TO A FROZEN RIVER . ( From the Dutch of Tollens . } Sweet River ! in thy summer flow , Thy rapid course , and sunny glow , Our early ...
... look with too keen an eye upon this humble , but praiseworthy effort for their amusement . - EDITOR . ] TO A FROZEN RIVER . ( From the Dutch of Tollens . } Sweet River ! in thy summer flow , Thy rapid course , and sunny glow , Our early ...
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... look upon - and to love . The descendants of Bumpus ap Bwbwy were especially accomplished in all sorts of juvenile devilry and mischief , for which Twm , the lad of all work , was mainly to be commended ; not , but there was plenty of ...
... look upon - and to love . The descendants of Bumpus ap Bwbwy were especially accomplished in all sorts of juvenile devilry and mischief , for which Twm , the lad of all work , was mainly to be commended ; not , but there was plenty of ...
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Popular passages
Page 243 - And why ? I was grieved at the wicked : I do also see the ungodly in such prosperity.
Page 103 - But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown foot-way tread, But all the bloomy flush of life is fled...
Page 103 - The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, The watch-dog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
Page 103 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Page 151 - While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.
Page 137 - Press her lips the while they glow With love that they have often told, — Hereafter thou mayst press in woe, And kiss them till thine own are cold. Press her lips the while they glow!
Page 103 - The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school , The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind...
Page 103 - She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain.
Page 103 - Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There, as I passed with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below; The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Page 263 - ... supply all demands of this nature; and if the histories of every house were made public, you would shudder. Even in our small menage, our cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and the housemaid bigamy ! But these formidable truths are hushed up, or tried to be so.